History Main / SugarApocalypse

** Higurashi's story [[spoiler: is a time loop wherein several characters always start out as schoolyard best friends in a sleepy little rural Japanese town called Hinamizawa. Each cycle of the loop starts out sickeningly cutesy - playground hijinks, characters making nonsense noises ("nipaa") and other characters gushing over how adorable it is, and typical [[MundaneMadeAwesome melodramatization of the mundane]]. Baseball and hide-and-seek, in particular, are seen as SeriousBusiness with the former regarded as an epic battle and the latter subjected to a child's idea of in-depth military strategy. An episode or two into the cycle, though, characters begin to die in horrifically violent, painful and gruesome ways and one character - Rika - is conscious of the cycle of reincarnation and the futility of fighting it. If you've seen the WesternAnimation/SouthPark Mysterion/"Coon And Friends"/Cthulhu episodes, you get the idea. She's Kenny. Only rather than being played for dark laughs, it's played just plain dark. Then, when everyone you care about has been reduced to ashes, wet meat, or a comatose vegetable, the plot reset button gets hit and it's time to watch them suffer all over again.]]

* ''Comicbook/IHateFairyland'' is about a young girl who wound up stuck in the eponymous Fairyland and sent forth on a quest to unlock her way home... 27 years ago. While she hasn't aged physically, mentally she is now 33 years old and has been driven murderously insane after nearly three decades of failure and now goes around causing all sorts of chaos and carnage.

%%* Likewise, Fanfic/TheEndOfPonies.

* The ''MLP:FIM'' fanfic [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/253045/i-am-going-to-save-and-or-destroy-equestria I Am Going To Save And/Or Destroy Equestria]] is about a world where Nightmare Moon and Celestia destroyed each other, rather than Celestia sealing her sister away. This causes the Fiends, the majority of whom are G1 villains, to be released from Tartarus, and without alicorns to defeat them, the results are not pretty. The entire Equestrian army is more or less annihilated in six minutes, and one of the interlude chapters features a survivor's story of the end of Baltimare, which plays as a combination of ''Franchise/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] and [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]] ''[[VideoGame/TwelveThirteen 1213]]'' with the [[spoiler: Golden Ticket ending where the world ended because everything turned into sweets and everyone died from diabetes.]]

* VideoGame/DinoRun. Cutesy, sometimes hat-wearing pixel dinosaurs, colorful 8-bit GhibliHills... and the premise of the game is that all this is about to be ''destroyed.''

* VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue has evil aliens invading Earth with the intention of turning everyone on the planet into a cube, complete with a DownerEnding if you fail to defeat the final boss.

** The Amazon is commonly a victim of the Sugar Apocalypse in {{Green Aesop}}s. To prevent this, the kids are forced by their parents to [[CutawayGag join a choir to travel to the Amazon]]. The choir is even more sugary. By the end of the episode, [[IncrediblyLamePun nature abhors a vegan]], and they all want to destroy the Amazon.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] someone [[HyperDestructiveBouncingBall on a destructive]] [[CaffeineBulletTime sugar rush]] (though this could conceivably be the outcome) or [[HappyFunBall sugar being used as an accelerant]].

* The [[KillEmAll Genocide or "No Mercy" route]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' essentially has you ''causing'' this by completely emptying the Underground of all its quirky and colorful inhabitants one by one. If you actually manage to do so (a difficult task for both [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment gameplay-related]] and [[YouBastard emotional]] reasons), your reward is [[spoiler:a chilling TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from the Fallen Child to you, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the player]], followed by the Fallen Child ''killing the game itself'' (the Steam version even has the game automatically close after this). If you try to play the game again, all you'll see is a featureless void...but wait a few minutes, and the Fallen Child will offer to restore everything and let you play all over again, in exchange for your SOUL.]]

* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'':
** In "Days Of Future Smurfed", the Smurf Village is destroyed in an earthquake in Empath's advanced years. The last Smurf in his generation that he sees dying when this happens is his half-brother Brainy.
** In "The New Shop In The Village", Empath in a dream sees the village in a decayed state after most of the Smurfs and Smurfettes in it have succumbed to doing all sorts of drugs, which was after Empath as its new leader has legalized the use of smurfnip once a new strain has been developed that produces only the high but not the MarijuanaIsLSD-type hallucinations.
** In an [[https://smurfsfanon.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MarchTo49/The_Smurfs_And_The_Howlibird:_The_Parody_Story non-canon story]] of ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' on the Smurfs Fanon Wiki, based on ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Smurfs And The Howlibird" (which turned out to be [[spoiler:the story of a shadowy figure/Sweepstar being read to his robot friends, Stardiot and Terios]]), [[ImMelting the Smurf village is melted along with almost all of the Smurfs]] in the [[HollywoodAcid "white liquid"]] rained by [[SecondPersonNarration the reader]] (as the Howlibird).

* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Days Of Future Smurfed", the Smurf Village is destroyed in an earthquake in Empath's advanced years. The last Smurf in his generation that he sees dying when this happens is his half-brother Brainy. In "The New Shop In The Village", Empath in a dream sees the village in a decayed state after most of the Smurfs and Smurfettes in it have succumbed to doing all sorts of drugs, which was after Empath as its new leader has legalized the use of smurfnip once a new strain has been developed that produces only the high but not the MarijuanaIsLSD-type hallucinations.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_I23TmiHMc&t=8s Unicorn Wars]] is a war movie where a nation of militaristic, religious fanatic teddy bears are at war with some Eco terrorist unicorns, the main protagonists are a pair of teddy brothers who got recruited in the army and their company is unwittingly sent on what is implied to be a suicide mission into the unicorn forest, WarIsHell ensues.

** Taken UpToEleven in "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality," the second part of the show's finale. [[spoiler: Bill traps Mabel in a [[LotusEaterMachine world of all the things she likes,]] which makes it sickeningly bright and cutesy with the same 80s song looping over and over. When Mabel agrees to go back to the real world, it transforms into a [[CrapsaccharineWorld hellscape worthy of Bill.]] ]]

*** The Season 5 finale puts all of these to shame. [[ArcVillain Starlight]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Glimmer's]] TimeTravel plan to [[EvilIsPetty ruin the Mane Six's friendship]] results in [[ButterflyOfDoom increasing worse]] {{Bad Future}}s with the various previous {{Big Bad}}s ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the Flim Flam Brothers]]) conquering Equestria since the Mane Six weren't there to stop them. This eventually culminates into Equestria becoming [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a barren wasteland of rock, dirt, and dead trees]] that wouldn't look out of place in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. This, plus [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Twilight telling Starlight]] [[FromBadToWorse things could become even]] ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' [[FromBadToWorse if she continued]], convinces [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Starlight]] to put things back to normal.

* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Greatest" opens with a race of {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s called Binglebops in the middle of their sickeningly cutesy Bingleberry Festival when Lord Hater shows up and ruthlessly conquers their home planet Bingleborp. And by the final episode of second season of the series, the BigBad [[KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator]] [[spoiler: has destroyed all the colorful planets in the galaxy seen in the series except for one, leaving them completely devoid of life]].

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'', the pilot special for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' series. It starts off with the cutesy sweetness usually associated with the franchise, then reptilian monsters come out of the sky and snatch up ponies to be turned into the dragon-like servants of a demon-centaur named Tirek. ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' had some evil witches unleash [[BlobMonster The Smooze]] on Dream Valley, and several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' had Ponyland being threatened with danger, such as the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName chauvinistic penguins]] from "Baby It's Cold Outside" and the magic-stealing Lavan from "Quest of the Princess Ponies".

Not quite. A popular [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] and [[SatireParodyPastiche parody]] of the SugarBowl {{setting|s}} and its [[TastesLikeDiabetes overly cute residents]] is to have their [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome pwecious wittle]] town get faced with some of the most horrific and [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilariously]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistic]] of tragedies and disasters, basically breaking hell loose upon their land. Whether it's "Mr. Meanie" [[NotSoHarmlessVillain going stir crazy]], [[RapePillageAndBurn invading]] [[TheEmpire armies]], wars, firestorms, or other acts of PowersThatBe, the residents will suffer for their adorableness with ''[[KillTheCutie pain]]'' and ''[[BreakTheCutie despair.]]''

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', the land of Zinnia is a magical land full of fairies, unicorns, and mermaids, and its entire color palette is very bright and almost like candy. It doesn't stay that way when Malucia drains the entire land of magic.
* The destruction of [[spoiler: Cloud Cuckoo Land]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' - Duloc was already a CrapsaccharineWorld at best, but the ''Scared Shrekless'' special revisits it after everyone's cleared out and it's a run-down, creepy mess. To underline the point, that LyricalDissonance singing booth is now openly threatening.
* The Storm King immediately conquers Canterlot in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' and enslaves its residents, and plans redecorate to be less cute in order to better fit his brand.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''. An evil wizard unleashes his hellish forces on an ugly little hippy-dippy land populated by cutesy elves and fairies. Then there's the big battle scene in which little Rice Krispies mascot look-a-likes get mercilessly slaughtered.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', [[spoiler:[[TheSwarm the Cy-Bugs completely overrun]] Sugar Rush, forcing an evacuation of all of its residents (except for Vanellope, who is a glitch and cannot physically leave) and almost annihilating their world. Fortunately, after permanently stopping the Cy-Bugs, everything in Sugar Rush was reset by having Princess Vanellope cross the finish line.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine,'' one of these gets the plot moving. The heroes must resort to ThePowerOfRock to save Pepperland.

* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', a {{Unicorn}} OmnicidalManiac Twinkles the Terrible causes planets to explode in an cloud of pink dust, which settles in a heart-shape.
* Some animated incarnations of the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' franchise are not immune to attempts of destruction upon lands filled with pastel-colored little horses.
** The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials pilot special]] for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' series. It starts off with the cutesy sweetness usually associated with the franchise, then reptilian monsters come out of the sky and snatch up ponies to be turned into the dragon-like servants of a demon-centaur named Tirek. ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' had some evil witches unleash [[BlobMonster The Smooze]] on Dream Valley, and several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' had Ponyland being threatened with danger, such as the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName chauvinistic penguins]] from "Baby It's Cold Outside" and the magic-stealing Lavan from "Quest of the Princess Ponies".
** The series premiere of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ends on a cliffhanger as a MadGod, [[FallenAngel Nightmare]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Moon]], is freed from [[SealedEvilInACan her thousand-year imprisonment]], captures [[GodEmperor the resident sky-goddess]], and [[OmnicidalManiac threatens the world with extinction]] by triumphantly plunging it into TheNightThatNeverEnds.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' enjoys both repeatedly massacring the cutesy GangOfCritters and causing wholesale destruction of their wooded homeland, along with ''setting fire to the Earth itself'' on occasion.

The inverse of this parody is when the cute critters decide to take the offensive. Whether they're really a [[GangOfCritters gang of]] {{Killer Rabbit}}s, or [[BitchInSheepsClothing secretly evil and planning to]] [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer our world]], they mean our heroes harm in lovably cute [[VillainSong musical numbers.]]

* Fittingly, this is the origin story of the Skaven (AlwaysChaoticEvil RatMen) from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} recorded in the ''[[https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doom_of_Kavzar Doom of Kavzar]]''. OnceUponATime there was a city called Kavzar, by all acounts a peaceful and prosperous town, where [[OurHumansAreDifferent humans]] and [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] lived in harmony. They decided to build a giant tower to thank the gods for their well being, but the tower took too long to build, but thankfully a hooded stranger promised to help them. The stranger was able to complete the tower and put a giant bell to his god. Then he left, and the bell rang [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteen times]]. The rats of Kavzar started growing in size, eating all of the food and causing a famine. The humans aske the dwarves for food, but the dwarves had the same problem. Then the rats grew to the size of men and started ''eating'' the inhabitants of Kavzar. Then the giant rats (dubbed Skaven) wiped out the city's population... and this is the take of Kavzar.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bftmZlpAkPg Don't mess with]] [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations UNICEF.]]]]

See also SubvertedKidsShow, SuperweaponSurprise, CrapsaccharineWorld, SurpriseCreepy, TroubledBackstoryFlashback, DangerouslyGarishEnvironment, and SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror. VileVillainSaccharineShow is when the show has a villain that by all rights should cause it, but doesn't...most of the time. ArtStyleDissonance is practically a requirement.

* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' once has a ''ZombieApocalypse'' complete with TheVirus. [[DaylightHorror Only seen by day.]] And ''all the Smurfs get bitten'', before the cure is spread by accident. And it has lingering effects even after being cured: Grouchy Smurf, the first infected and the one who stayed under its effects the longest, used to not be grouchy before that. Oh, and it predates ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' by ''nine years''.[[note]] Grouchy's behavioral change ''only'' applies to the original comic book story "The Black Smurfs". The AnimatedAdaptation version "The Purple Smurfs" takes place after "The Smurfette", so Grouchy's behavior there is simply natural.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/EquestriaAtWar'', a ''[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hearts of Iron IV]]'' mod in keeping with the grand tradition of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{Dark Fic}}s, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a RomanAClef of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in Equestria, with violence and war crimes aplenty. As dark as ''Friendship is Magic'' itself often gets, this take on the lore goes that much further.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' -- Uses the trope to exhaustion. Serial-killing Smurfs, genocidal Franchise/CareBears, bitter WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake, etc. And the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse in the form of ''MyLittlePony''.

* One of the core aspects of ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is the clash between cuter franchises with more mature ones, such as a [[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} MAWLR]] terrorizing [[VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper Parappa Town]] or a [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Desperado RAY]] tearing up [[VideoGame/LocoRoco Franzea]]. Other stages feature a bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in which the cutesy universes are the ones doing the invading, such as [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Hades]] getting swarmed by an army of VideoGame/{{Patapon}} or [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Specter]] interrupting a battle between the [[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} Helghan and the ISA]]. Such MoodWhiplash is stated by WordOfGod to be, partially, the point of the game.

* ''VideoGame/SomaSpirits'': The World of Joy seems like a happy world while the World of Sorrow is dreary in a comical way, with both worlds being populated by cute anthropomorphic beings. [[spoiler:All routes end up being a battle to save one or both worlds from destruction, and two of these routes end with half the world destroyed by [[EldritchAbomination Absolution]]]].

** The Amazon is commonly a victim of the SugarApocalypse in {{Green Aesop}}s. To prevent this, the kids are forced by their parents to [[CutawayGag join a choir to travel to the Amazon]]. The choir is even more sugary. By the end of the episode, [[IncrediblyLamePun nature abhors a vegan]], and they all want to destroy the Amazon.